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Webcast: In the Google Apps Cloud: How to Achieve Your Business Objectives
Dec 3rd, '09, 1 - 2 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council member Brent Hoag, Director, Global IT, at JohnsonDiversey, as he discusses the adoption of Google Apps which has helped meet four corporate goals; sustainability, simplification, increased employee productivity and global collaboration.
Webcast: Collaboration Initiatives: Benchmarks & Best Practices
Dec 15th, '09, 4 - 5 pm US/Eastern (GMT-5)
Join Council members Ruth Thorpe, VP & CIO at the U.S. Pharmaceutical Operations of Sanofi-Aventis, and Gary Kuyper, CIO at Bethany Christian Services, as they speak about their collaboration initiatives and experiences in how and why they chose the social networking and collaboration tools they are using and their business goals for collaboration, and facing culture change challenges.
Data Overview: Collaboration Initiatives Field Guide: Benchmarks & Best Practices
This appendix to the Council Field Guide provides an analysis which discusses benchmarks for collaboration IT implementation costs, adoption rates and payoffs. The overview identifies top IT and business goals and satisfaction rates for collaboration initiatives as well as best practices and lessons learned for implementing collaboration IT.
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Ten Secrets to Offshore Outsourcing Success
Top ten tips from United Technologies' IT leaders John Doucette and David Wood.
June 01, 2003 — CIO —
1. Determine whether your IT organization is ripe for outsourcing to India. A centralized application development and maintenance organization is much easier to relocate than a dispersed one.
2. Decide what is strategic to your IT department, and hold on to it.
3. Sign on multiple vendors as a way to keep costs in check and to provide access to a variety of technical skills.
4. Keep a certain percentage of skilled developers in-house to monitor offshore service and rates.
5. If outsourcing to India is a long-term plan, develop a long-term relationship. Don’t manage projects one at a time.
6. Be selective about the vendor’s proposed project leader, and host him stateside. Make sure he is empowered to make key decisions minus the red tape.
7. Spend a month creating a comprehensive transition plan, documenting the knowledge transfer process.
8. Establish rock-solid application development and maintenance processes.
9. Create a robust in-house QA department.
10. Insist that the vendor’s account owner conduct monthly and quarterly reviews, and do the same in-house.
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Consolidate Your Servers and Storage to Lower Costs with Oracle Database 11g
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
2:00pm ET/ 11:00am PT
Oracle Database 11g and Oracle Real A...
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